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Date Posted: 18:32:41 03/30/04 Tue
Author: stu
Subject: Re: Are you guys buying this stuff?
In reply to: mt. healthy mountaineer 's message, "Re: Are you guys buying this stuff?" on 18:24:15 03/29/04 Mon

Bin Laden hates the U.S. because we have military bases in Saudi Arabia which we use to keep tabs on, and to make war against other Arab countries. He thinks this profanes the holy places in this country. Yes, he is a religious fanatic, but this does not tell the whole story.

When I spoke about the devestation of Germany after WWI, I was refering to the Treaty of Versailles. Their military was disbanded, they were made to pay debts that they could not possibly pay (utter poverty and humiliation) and much of their territory was taken from them. The end of WWII was much different. The allies learned from the past. They helped to rebuild Germany and treated them fairly. Big difference.

It's funny you used the example of a navy seaman to debunk my analogy. Navy Seals are trained to commit terrorist acts! I also think it is contradictory to emphasize the supposed difference between "terrorist acts" and "acts of war," and then say that Afghanistan declared war on the U.S. with an act of terrorism. I meant that they could not possibly commit to a legitimate war against the U.S. (Invasion, air attacks, occupation, overthrow - like the wars we wage.)

Yes, Saddam used the weapons that he bought from the U.S. against the Kurds. The U.S. government couldn't have cared less. However, the U.S. is the only country to ever have used an atomic bomb. We have more blood on our hands than Iraq. Also, the U.S. military used depleted uranium casings for their missiles in the first Iraq war. Straight-up war crime. Look into the effects of these missiles on Iraqi civilians as well as U.S. soldiers.

So what are these vast differences between cults and religions? What was Christianity at its genesis? A cult. What would the Unification Church be if it had 60 million members? A religion.

Cult - system of religious worship.

Religion - any system of faith in and worship of a supreme being or a god or gods.

Nothing wrong with my dictionary. However, I will say that dictionaries are limited when trying to define divergent concepts like God, Religion, Truth, Reality, etc...

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Re: Are you guys buying this stuff? -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 19:39:42 03/31/04 Wed
- Stu - still wondering what you think Al Sharpton would have done with the KKK as a terrorist group? -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 19:49:38 03/31/04 Wed
  - I can't post! 103 letters? What's going on? (NT) -- stu, 23:25:34 03/31/04 Wed
  - KKK -- stu, 12:45:24 04/01/04 Thu
    - Bases -- Mt. Healthy Mountaineer, 20:26:58 04/01/04 Thu
- Re: Are you guys buying this stuff? -- stu, 23:08:31 03/31/04 Wed
  - Re: Are you guys buying this stuff? -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 20:51:42 04/02/04 Fri